A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A sprawling Maya city, hidden for over a thousand years beneath thick jungle in southern Mexico, has been uncovered thanks to ...

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Archeologists found three jade-inlaid teeth in a museum collection. These teeth show that Maya children used dental inlays as a form of art.

Tucked some 37 miles deep in the jungle, a research team—led by Ivan Ṡprajc, a professor of archaeology from Slovenia who has ...

The scarlet macaw, one of Belize’s most iconic and endangered bird species, continues to depend on specific habitats across ...

In Chiapas, Palenque rose from the jungle as explorers stumbled into a city forgotten for a thousand years, then a buried staircase led to a royal tomb sealed beneath the Temple of the Inscriptions.

In 1839, John Lloyd Stevens and Frederick Catherwood pushed through war, bandits, and malaria to reach Copan and beyond, producing the drawings and travel accounts that revealed the sophistication of ...

Archaeologists say an elite Phrygian tomb found far from the capital of Gordion may shed new light on legendary King Midas’ ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

The tumulus (or burial mound) now stands about 26 feet (8 meters) above a natural hillock and more than 100 ft (30 m) above ...

Two of Tulum’s major archaeological sites have doubled their entrance fees this year, making visiting them a bit more ...